Thus it is: we do not receive a short life, but we make it a short one, and we are not poor in days, but wasteful of them.
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- Of the Shortness of Life, in Minor Dialogues (Aubrey Stewart translation, 1889); Exact wording and attribution checked. Stoic reflections on mortality, postponement, and the lived use of time.
- Of the Shortness of Life, in Minor Dialogues (Aubrey Stewart translation, 1889)
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